[Infowarrior] - Good Luck....France Considers 'Right To Forget' Law

[Richard Forno]

France Considers 'Right To Forget' Law, Apparently Not Realizing The  
Internet Never Forgets
Hot on the heels of France considering laws to tax successful internet  
companies to try to prop up unsuccessful entertainment industry  
companies, comes a report that France is also considering a special  
"right to forget" law, which would allow anyone to ask that any  
information about them be deleted after a certain period of time. At  
first, I though that they meant content created by the person asking  
for it to be deleted (like emails), but it sounds like they mean any  
content about a person. So, say, if you did something embarrassing in  
college, and your friends put pictures of it online, once the time  
limit for the "right to forget" law kicked in, you could demand every  
version of that picture be taken offline. Yeah. Like that will work.  
Trying to suppress information online doesn't work, no matter what law  
you put in place. I'm reminded of the convicted German murderer, who  
is demanding that information on his conviction be removed from  
Wikipedia under a similar type of law. All that did was call a lot  
more attention to the story.

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